Check dispenser



June 13,1933- H. T. KlNGsBURY CHECK DISPENSER l Filed Aug. 29, 19:51

5 Sheets-Sheet l June 13, 1933.

H. T. KINGSBURY CHECK DISPENSER Filed Aug. 29, 1931 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June'13, 1933 y stares PATENT ortica Y HAR-RYv T. KINGSBURY, OF KEENE, NEW HAMPSHRE, ASSIGNOR TO KNGSBURY .'AME'G'..

COMPANY, OF KEENE, NEW- HAMPSHIRE, A. CORPORATONOF NEW HAIVIPSHIRE CHECK DISPENSER Appimtion mea August 29,1931. sensi No. 560,222.'-

' tothe time at which itis presented-for withdrawal. V. i

' ferential advancements.

Another feature ofthe machine-is the provision of means whereby one portion ofthe tape is advanced more rapidly thananother portion, and means are provided for severing the tape at the fold formed by the dif- Still another feature'or the invention yis the provision of means wherebythetapeand its advancing mechanism cooperate -with av linger whereby the nger is caused tou-sever the tape at a predetermined point and at a predetermined timeJ during the advancement of the tape. Y v

Another feature of the invention is the provision of a tape for cooperating with'disi pensing machine elements' wherebyY the tape is definitely and positively severed by a tear ing yoperation in such a manner that the remainiiig portieri ofthe tape is presented .reg-

ularly for advancement, without danger of l vided a lower apron or guide piece 31 which is bent downwardly at the sides and secured `to the side plates 14, 15 as bythe screws 32.

Above this apron 3l is a second guide 'apron' 33 which is spaced from the first apron by a y'distance which permits the passage of the voverlapped portions of the tape and the check jamming or blocking the machine parts.v

l/Vith these and other features in` viewv as will appear in the following specification and claims, an illustrative form of the con struction of a machine is set forth'on the accompanying drawings in which z Figure `1 is a plan viewfof the machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe same. v Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the same substantially on line 3--3 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 4 is a similar section, with' the parts in a different operative position.

Fig. 'is likewise a similar view, withl the parts in astill different position.

Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical sectional view substantially on the line 6 6 of Fig-3. p y

vprovided a guide member 40 whichlikewise is folding of the tape and theengagement of Vsecuredby screws 41 to the side plates 14, 15

Fig; 7 is a perspective viewshowing the f severing.

the vtearing finger therewith just lprior to" Fig. 8 is a view showing a portion of the tape including the notches at which severing is effected.

Fig-9 Vis, a-viewvof 'one check as severed*v from the tape. v l

In thesedrawings the base 10 has an upright 11 thereon to receive the shaft 12 on which is mounted a supply roll 13 of tape.

Likewise mounted on this base are side plate`s14, 15 which support the various shafts for the feeding system. Extending transversely through the machine is the main gear shaft 16 having a large gear 17 at oney end there of in mesh with the small gear 18 mounted on va lower shaft 19 and having also fixed thereto a twin gear 2,0 which meshes with the upperftwin gear 21 on an upper feed shaft 22.

Likewise meshing withv the main gear y17 isa lower gear 23 on the lower delivery shaft 24. The delivery gear 23 meshes with the delivery "gear 25 on the upper-delivery shaft 26.

1 On the shafts 19 and 22,between the plates 14 15, are provided the pairs of feed rollers 2'?, 28 which preferably are of soft basey material` such as rubber in yorder to afford a proper frictiona-l grip upon the tape. Likewise, onl the shafts 24, 26 are provided friction rolls 29, 30 which likewise engage. the check asit-is being delivered. v v

VBetween the'rolls 27, 28 and 29, 30 is prosevered from the tape. This upper apron 33 is'likewise bent at itsy sides and lits on top of the side plates 14, 15 and is secured thereto by screws 34. At the end of the plate 33 which p is first encountered by the tape areprovided a i pair offingers l35.(ld`ig. 1)v for engagement in slots of the tape as will be desciibedr in detail hereinafter.

At the feeding side of the rolls v27, 28 is icc (Fig. 1) and serves to receive and guide the tape in its travel through the machine and to prevent it from being forced downwardly. This member is provided with a notch 42 for the reception of the tearing arm as will be described hereinafter. A top plate 43 issecured to the extension of plate 40 by screws 44 and serves in cooperation with plate 40 to hold the tape in proper rectilinear lposition as -it is being delivered into the feeding and discharge rolls.-

The side plates 14,` are preferably held spaced by the bolts 45 and collars 46 in the usual manner. A

Loosely mountedon the .shaft 22 of .the upper feed rolls is a metal trough-like `member 50 having formed integral therewith an arcuately rbent tearing arm .-51. To this member 50 is secured by a screw 52 the clamp piece 53 so that between ,the members@ and 53 a frictional engagement is produced with respect to the tape 22 so that the tearing 4arm :51 is carried in rotation on the shaft 22 when not opposedby a force suiicient to cause the relative rotation of these miembers.

The ticket strip or vtape which is particularly adapted to beemployed with this Amachine is shown in Figs. 8 and 9 in which the i' so individual ticketsA, B `are connected in the tape by the web lpieces 70,'while the slots 71 are provided in transverse alinement and longitudinally spaced from but in alinement with'the webs 7 O.` This ticket strip or tape of checks is disclosed and y'claimed in my cepending application Serial No. 67 0,544, filed May 11, 1933.

In operation, the `ticket strip or tape comprising pluralities of tickets oined as shown in Fig. 8 is fed between the guide plates 40,

43 (Figs. 1 and 2) linto position between the feed rollers 27., 23.v The master lgear 17 is then rotated irn a counterclockwise direction (Fig. 2) by hand so that it -drives the small gear 13 and therewith the twin lgears 20, 21

and the rollers 27, 28 which engage withv the tape adjacent its edges and cause it .to be fed forward toward the right in Figs. 1 and 2. The advancing end of the ticket tape normally passes of itself between the `lingers 35 and Ythe lower plate 31, which as Vshown in Fig. 3

arcuate severing arm 51 has been moved in the counterclockwise vdirection withthis shaft until its eXtreme end has come to rest against the upper surface of the tape, in which position the arm is heldv at a standstill until the central aperture 72 (Fig. 8) between two individual tickets or checks comes beneath the arm 51.

wise movement with the shaft 22. The arm swings from the full line position shown in Fi-g. 3 through the dotted line position therein and ultimately assumes the position shown in Fig. 4 in which it has engaged with the foremost ticket or check in the same transverse line as the slots 71. Owing to the engagement of the foremost ticket with the rolls 29, 30, this foremost ticket is now delayed, ywhile ithe knext succeeding ticket is ad- 35 so that these fingers tend to enter the slots,

being assisted in this by the upward bending ofthe rear edges of these slots (Fig. 7). As the tickets are continuously fed forward, the fingers 35 penetrate into the slots and cause a tearing of the material of the tape at the points along the dotted lines 7 5 in Fig. 8 by reason of the traction through the foremost ticket A, and therewith also the fingers 35 cause the tabs 70a (Fig. 9) formed byV the webs 7 0 and the portions lying within the respective pairs of dotted lines 75 to be .folded backward over the top of the succeeding ticketto which they are integrally joined,

so that they do not project laterally to ob- Y struct or impede the properly guided for- War-.d movement of the ticket B, and hence rated f -rom the next following ticket.

A slight further movement of the master gear 17 causes the advancing edge of this foremost ticket to project so that it may be grasped between the thumb and finger (Fig. 3). Upon pulling this foremost ticket A forward, the above operations are repeated .and the next succeeding ticket is thus de- .B is engaged with the delivery rolls 29, 30

before the foremost ticket A has been freed therefrom (Fig. 4). Thus, when the ma- At this time 4 the arm 51 can continue in its counterclock- `the foremost ticket has been turned and sepachine is at a standstill ready for delivery foremost and projecting ticket results in the detachment of another ticket and its delivery in a position ready for grasping.

The forward movement of the foremost ticket A (Fig. 7) disengages it from above the severing arm 51 so'that this arm is now free again to move in a counterclockwise direction with shaft 22. It will particularly be noted that by reason of the frictional relationship of the arm 51 with shaft 22, the rolly. guide means for the .tape between said rolls.

fand ,In'eans en'gageablelwith anaperture in the tape for detaining a portion of the tape ers 28 need not be accuratelydimensioned as to their periphery with respect to the length of the individual tickets, so long as the severing arm 51 is brought down against l y l tape will cause a'tearing and severing of the which the hole 72 is presented opposite thev the ticket strip not later than the time at path of travel of this arm.

Itl will be understood that normally the'k machine is provided with an enclosing casing 100 as indicated in dotted lines in Fig.

3, so that the machine may be placed on a slot 101 in the casing 100. lThe casingvhasvl a removable portion such as the door A1052,

' tape.

Obviously, the invention is not limited solely to the form of execution shown but may j" be modified in many ways Vwithin the scope 1 ing delivery'rolls and feed'rolls engageable .n Vwith a'tape of checks, means for connecting.:

of the appended claims.

What is claimed:

1. A check dispensing apparatus including feeding and delivery means for a tape, and

positive motion transmitting devices con# necting said means so that they are operated continuously together at different speeds,

whereby the tape is caused to be fed faster than it is delivered from the apparatus.

2. A check dispensing apparatus including feeding and delivery rolls for a tape, and

positive motion transmitting devices connecting said means so that they are operated continuously together at different speeds, whereby the tape is caused to be fed faster than it is delivered from the apparatus.

3. A check dispensing apparatus including feeding rolls and delivery rolls and means to guide the tape between saidV rolls, and means whereby said rolls are operated positively together at different speeds so that the tape is caused to kink and overlap between said rolls.

4. A check dispensing apparatus including feeding rolls and delivery rolls and means to guide the tape between said rolls, means whereby said rolls are operated at different "speeds so thatthe tape iscaused tokink and overlapjbetween said rolls, and means for severing 'thetape .at the kinkpl l -g vIn acheck' dispensing apparatus a pair ofdelivery rolls engaged with the check to be dispensed so that the rolls are'rotated as thefcheckis withdrawn, feeding rollers engaged with the tape from which the `checks 6. Anapparatus' as in claim '5, including at the kink whereby a pull on the end-of the end check'from the tape.

f 7 `A check dispensing apparatus comprising delivery rolls and feed rolls, means connecting and-'causing said rolls to move at dif- "ferentk peripheral speeds whereby to cause k-inking of a tape engaged with said feed. "rolls, guideslto support the tape between said delivery'.A and feed rolls, and tearing means engageable with the tapeat the kinked portion ythereof for severing the tape. l

1 8'. A checky dispensing apparatus employing a tape ofv checks `having `apertures therein,

y"delivery and feed rollsY engaged' with the -checks,rguides for'supporting the tapevbetween said rolls and including fingers to entersaid apertures, and means for moving theV ft'ape out of its plane into 'engagement with saidy fingers.vk y y 9. A check-dispensingapparatus compris.

said rolls for differential peripheral move- -V ment whereby the tapeiis fed past said feeding rolls more'rapidly.V than it is delivered tape prior to its withdrawalfrom said der liveryfrolls whereby the greater speed of the feeding rolls will cause a succeeding checkto "enter between said delivery rolls-before the end check is removedtherefrom.

10. A check dispensing apparatus includingpairs of driving and feed rolls for en- 'gagementwith a tape of checks, a main shaft,

and intermeshing gears onthe rolls and shaft A so that the-same move in unison, the speeds.;

ratio lbetween the vdelivery. rolls and said shaft being less than the speed ratio between said feed rolls and said shaft. Y

- v'11. A check dispensing apparatus comprising `a pair of delivery rolls, a pair of feed-ffii ing rolls, intermeshing gears on each of said pairs of rolls, a main kgear in driving relationship with both said pairs of rolls, the

gear ratio between said main gear and said delivery gears being less than Ythe ratioV be-130 `vtween said main gear-s and; saidA feeding .-rolls.

l2. .Azcheck dispensing apparatusflincluding feed rollsto `engageaftapie ofycliecksfdelivery rolls .tonengage an :end check, said feed rolls being driven at a.greaterqperipl1eral speed than saiddelivery. rollsfandltapeyguides `located between said .rolls and including means to engage-and detain-a part ofthe tape, whereby .a pull ion` afoheck` projecting from said-deliveryfrolls will cause a tearing o-f Ythe tape .betweenV said -rojllsgand an zoveri lapping of the .end fof :saidtapepas'tj the :so-

torn end of a check. f y

13. .A check dispensing. apparatus ineludl5l ing a pair of deliveryrrolls andfafpair of feed rolls, means for Connecting said deliveryrolls to said feed Arolls whereby `the feedrrolzlsf. are drivenl at a. greater peripheral speedftliansaid deliveryrolls, tape guide means betWeensaid rolls including means lto yengagea;portion .of

the tape whieliis kinked leecauseof the di'erential movement ofsaid;rolls,.and to sever the end check from the tape, saidV guides conducting Vtlie end of the tape to l,the'deli'very `rolls whereby the Withdrawal-of a check from the delivery rolls vwill cause the tape to beadvaneed-.and severed and the :next-succeeding rand ysevered check to bedelivered :between said delivery `rol'ls-,floefone `the checkbeing wiltlhdrawn 'is separatedV fro-msaid delivery ro s.

14. A check Vdispensinga.apparatus lineluding feeding and delivery -meansffor a tape, devices wherebysaid feeding Aand .deli-very means are yoperated at: different 4speeds so that V.the :tape is caused to :be fed fasterthangit is delivered from the apparatusfand toform .a kink between said feeding and delivery means, and a-inger movable with ...the feed- 40ng1means for determining the )point of :the

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, 15. In a check dispensing apparatus, @a .pair vof rollers engaging a taperofclleoksfer feedingtlie saine, means ,for causing the tape "ato kink, and a finger frictionallylmounted.on

the sliaftv'of one of said `rollerswhereby .to be rotated. therewitlrand koperating to determine the point `of the kink.

16. Acheck dispensing apparatus inelud- 5t) ing feeding Aand delivery means tfama tape,

motion-transmittingV devices forf drivingrsaid means at different speeds whereby-.the -tape'is caused to be fed` faster than ritis 4.delivered from the apparatus, anda tapeguidebetween '55 ,said means for causing :theta-peto kink into overlapping condition owing- Yto .thefdifferential feeding and discharge thereof.

In testimonywliereof, I aiiix myfs-ignature.

` HARRY T. KINGSBURY. 

